I do not dream tonight about the sky,
I dream instead of moonlight on a pool;
A place I’ve never been to, never seen —
A motel, somewhere, faintly lit with gold.

I grew up in a world that loved motels.
As station wagons roamed across the land,
My people transmigrated every year;
A new soul found on every three week trip.

But here went forty years, and I have seen
More luxury than my dad ever did:
And motels are a cheap alternative
That we pass by for some other resort.

But yet, in blue and gold under the moon
I dream of what was beauty
And still is

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(Is it bad when you start to dream in blank verse? – Owen)

The wind barely sweeps o’er the grass
And only slightly ripples the puddles
Moonlight slouches out from behind the clouds
As I drift through the yard unseen

Darkness holds the earth
Daylight memories of this place break in
Like bursts of static
Only to be swallowed up by the night

And lonely I am as only one can be
Whose dreams pull him back to the scene
Of his biggest mistakes, his secret sorrows
Turned now into
An almost-silent movie

I woke up to this other world
Of dreams and phantoms, distant suns;
The watered wastes surrounded me
In reticence both cold and gray
The eerie, haunted day

I felt your ghost beside me there
The terror cold within my chest;
Infinity, directionless —
To row although there was no shore
Just row for evermore

A revenant back from the dead
Among the lifeless planet there;
An alien without a home,
An endless ache of wanting –
With only me
For haunting